Spaceport Earth author Joe Pappalardo (seen here, eating a cockroach in front of Blue Origin and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos) is a contributing editor at Popular Mechanics. His work has also appeared in/on Smithsonian Air & Space, Esquire.com, Autoblog, Time, American Way and MentalFloss.com, and he has been a guest on C-SPAN, CNN, MSNBC and Fox News. He was recently the editor-in-chief at the Dallas Observer.